From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 1 0:46:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (oringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A081137B406 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 53288 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Aug 2001 07:45:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:45:41 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Assar Westerlund Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making glob(3) portable (was Re: Importing lukemftpd) Message-ID: <20010801104541.A47972@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Assar Westerlund , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5lofq0pfh3.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5lofq0pfh3.fsf@assaris.sics.se>; from assar@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:32:40AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:32:40AM +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Mike Heffer has committed this to current. Should this be MFC-ed > (before 4.4?). I would like it to be, but the only reason for not > doing so is that it's impossible to do so in a totally backwards > compatible way and the APIs are not supposed to be changed in > RELENG_4. Thoughts? ISTR this having been discussed before, and the general agreement being that it has not lived in RELENG_4 long enough for people to really start using it (outside the base system). Okay, so it has been in 4.3-RELEASE, but still, I think in this particular case it would be better to try for compatibility.. G'luck, Peter -- I am jealous of the first word in this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message